7 tips to choose a good Web Hosting company to start your bussiness

If you want to start your internet business you need to take care your web site first. But before the website you need to take your Web hosting , in a web hosting package you will have your web site and your email accounts, but who wants a bad service ? nobody!

There are hundreds thousands of hosting companies out there. Most of their services are similar, so how to find a REALLY GOOD one ? Here are some things you may want to look for in a hosting company, especially if your website is part of your overall marketing plan to sell products or services.


1. Instant Support - I particularly emphasize this element is the most important element when you choosing a web hosting company. Admit it, no web hosting company can guarantee for no error occurs for your web hosting services. So, how fast is their response to your website error is critical, at least, you know what is going wrong and when it can be recovered. Before you sign up to a hosting plan with a web hosting company, You can try to write an email, asking some common questions and see how long is their respond time, or , try call them up.

2. Find a local hosting - Why ? because you won't spent too much money on calling them when you need instant help. Further more, if your website is targeting on local market, then finding a local web hosting company can help to minimize your website download time.

3. Daily Backup - Sometimes you may accidentally delete or replace some files when you are using FTP to upload your webpages to your website. With the daily backup, you can ask the web hosting provider restore it back.

4. Email antivirus and antispam - This is must-have features in today's web hosting service. it will give your extra protection besides the antivirus software installed in your computer, and minimize the junk mails you receive.

5. Control Panel - The Control Panel where you control all aspects of your account, such as managing email accounts, reading statistics, and configuring autoresponders. Make sure your hosting company has a control panel for your needs.

6. Website Statistics – From a marketing perspective, it's important to know who is visiting your site and what pages they read. Your hosting company should keep track of all of this information for you, and present it in an easy to read format. Make sure your statistics are updated on a daily basis.


7. SEO Friendly - Yes, the quality of web hosting is also affecting the SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Unfortunately, it is very difficult to prove that their web hosting is SEO friendly. Here is a tip : try go to search engines like Yahoo, MSN or Google, searching "web hosting in Malaysia" ( Replace Malaysia if the hosting company is in other country) , If you can find the provider website, it mean this web hosting company is SEO frienly.


Others features such as support CGI/PERL, Front page extension support etc is too common to discuss here. Remember, price is not the most important element, the SUPPORT is !

I hope all the advice above help the newbies

 

I'd also go with big name companies only...I don't trust start-up server hosts because they usually quit when they realize how saturated the competition is. Servint rocks for VPS...I still like Hostgator for shared, although I'm not a fan of shared hosting.

 

I agree with you , but always there is a start , right ? The shared hosting is a solution for small websites and my opinion is the Shared is used only to collect customers with small sites and nothing more. If someone have a big site or a site with special attributes or needs then the vps it is one way road . Do not forget ,always there is a start for everybody.

 

Correct starting with shared makes sense. It's helpful to have the option to upgrade to a VPS down the road with your hosting company.

 

well if you are an established person with a lot of money, sure you can afford yourself a high paying hosting, ordered annually or even for 2 years, use some discount and save cash. but if you are just starting, start with a simple host, see how it goes, cut your expensess when you don't need to pay the extra. For instance a new website wont need a VPS or nothing like that. so this precaution will insure your losses in the future will be as limited as possible if your business wont succeed.

just 2c.

 

Thanks for sharing this good advice, i agree to stick with the big boys when you are starting out.

 

When starting out, ONLY pay for monthly hosting until you are sure the company and set-up is what you need. Never pay for 1 or 2 years hosting up-front until you know the money is worth spending.

Choose a compay that has been recommended to you, but don't rely upon recommendations from people you don't know.

If you have to call your company because a shared hosting server is down then something isn't right. They should KNOW there is a problem.

 

Has this forum become ezinearticles.com all of a sudden?

It is not 1985. It costs the same amount (i.e., almost nothing) to telephone any country that has a viable hosting market.

Why? What does this mean?

Choose hosting that has good connectivity to your audience. That may or may not be local. E.g. in Malaysia, Singapore-based hosting is usually a better option than local because Malaysian networks are so bad, whereas with Singapore-based hosting you only spend half as much time on the local net.

Insipid.

What sort of nonsense is this? What does the search ranking of your host's marketing page have to do with their customer sites? Unless the entire datacenter is blacklisted, it's a non-issue and you are wasting people's time with this sort of nonsense.

Yes, Frontpage extensions are critical for hosting, I don't know how anyone could ever get anything online without that cutting-edge bit of technology. At least you have confirmed my suspicions above that you are not living in the year 2010 or anywhere nearby.

 

big names have authenticity to what they state. its safe and secure to deal with them even though the return maybe small in the beginning till you establish your credentials with them

 

For you maybe it is nothing for other are a lot of money , try to make a phone call from your country to US and tell me if it is cheap or not , try first and then speak

Closer = Quicker , simple basic rules of physics and electronics

No i am not meaning that and it is not my fault if Malaysian or whatever networks are not working properly

really ???

nonsense for you because you do not have any idea how the SEO ranking works , try to google some terms and you will learn easy

Hm..... read it again and you will understand what i mean and use google translation in English language : )

Before to start accuse the people/Forumers try to respect them first ! it is easier

 

#2 and #7 make absolutely no sense..

I made the mistake of using a local host YEARS ago when I was first getting started. What a joke that was - A single person responsible for handling any server issues, and if he was asleep, you sometimes had to wait until morning to get an answer!

Switched to HostGator, and life couldn't be better!

 

im using a company in the UK just now who are an absolute rip off, bunch of jokers really, my site goes down numerous times a day im on support more than i am getting time to work on my site, to only be told theirs no problem, even though they reboot the server or whatever it is and tell me its working again.

an hour later im back to square one and the sites back down, cant make money like this.

 

I have an idea, because in a lot of people maybe does not like some of my tips , do you want suggest some new tips or modify some of them, i am suggesting this in friendly base and i do not want to disagree with someone , thanks : )

 

I love DreamHost they give you all of this .. but Support Sucks

 

just wanted to say a public thank you to tolisd for helping take the time to find out why my hosting were always having problems.

cheers mate.

 

From here in Malaysia to USA on my cell phone: Local call RM0.13/minute (USD0.04). Call to USA RM0.18/minute. The difference is miniscule. I can speak to the USA for an hour for the cost of a Big Mac.

For my work I travel constantly - usually visiting 20 or 30 countries every 12 months - and need to be in touch with clients in many countries throughout this time. The fact is, calling the USA is about as cheap as calling locally from most countries these days. I am sure you can find a way to make it expensive but that's your own fault for being a poorly-informed consumer.

Last time I was in your beautiful country I used a WIND prepaid card which charged me €0,21 per minute for domestic calls - and €0,21 per minute for calls to the USA. If you have a pocket calculator handy, try computing the difference between those two rates and let us know how much it is, in accordance with your mastery of simple basic rules of physics.

Not in hosting, not necessarily anyway. Getting bad service locally is not better than getting good service somewhere else in your region or even in one of the big markets like EU/USA. Using my ADSL line, I get better pings to Singapore and even to Japan and Taiwan than to many local hosting companies. I also get faster speedtest.net results from Singapore than locally.

I don't blame you for the problems with Malaysian network infrasctructure. I blame you for giving bad advice, just as an excuse to plug your website. I think you are just writing off the top of your head and don't have a very good understanding of how things work in much of the world.

Go ahead, explain to us how your hosting company's search rank will affect your own site's search rank. I am all ears.

If Google Translate supported whatever language you are writing in (Greeklish?), I would be very happy to have it converted to English.

It's not about respect or disrespect. It's about facts vs crap.

If anything, I respect the rest of the forummers enough to want to clear the air for their benefit when nonsense is posted.

 

So Mr Potatoes you know all "the know-how" about internet , you know about costs ,lines , internet , web hosting , countries , local hosting and about Big macs
also you know how to measure correctly the internet and the web hosting companies

solve the following puzzle then ........


In Italy a client is connected to a internet provider company with adsl or dialup , that company is "connected" with the "internet*(backbone)" in another "company" in Germany and etc.(the routing for ex. is Italy-germany-russia)
the client pings from Italy to a server in russia or taiwan or malaysia.

In Italy another client is connected to a Different internet company with adsl or dialup , that company is "connected" with the "internet(backbone)" in another "company" in UK.the client pings from Italy into the same server in russia or taiwan or malaysia.(the routing for ex. is Italy-UK-russia)

In Italy another client is connected to a Different internet company with adsl or dialup , that company is "connected" with the "internet(backbone)" in another "company" in Germany .the client pings from Italy into the same server in russia or taiwan or malaysia.(the routing for ex. is Italy-Germany-UK-Balkans -russia)


Who will have better/smaller ping time and who can upload/download files quicker ??


When someone is connected to the internet and he surfing or use ftp or whatever , His internet speed it is not always the same , so if a web server it is near of your clients/visitors computer (*when i say near i mean in the same country at least or "near" to the backbone) the the pages will showed quicker, the ftp will work quicker end etc.....

Let talk and about the last tutorial Mr whateverpotatos

In Italy another client is connected to a internet company with adsl or dialup , that company is "connected" with the "internet(backbone)" in another "company" in UK.the client pings from Italy into the same server in russia or taiwan or malaysia.(the routing for ex. is Italy-UK-russia).This client try to download a file from the server but he is not able to reach the 100Mb/s , Who is responsible ? the clients dsl line ? the internet provider ? the backbone ? or the owner of the server , because he keeps the upload limit at FPT to 100Mb/s ???

*i wrote all this simpler as i can , i do not want to use superb terms or theories because none will understand


If you think my 7 advices are crap , mr Whateverpotatos you can write your own and post them here to discuss them with the other forumers( i ask this already)
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It is not bad the criticism , it is bad to accuse and not suggest .

 

Thanks mate , if you have any problems in the future just ask from me to make some more measurements

 

It appears that way. You're lucky I'm here to set you straight!

WTF? It depends on the routes and their capacity and which ISPs peer with which others and where they peer. Your hypotheticals are meaningless in the absence of this information.

The situation is much more complex than that.

I am in Malaysia. To the north we have a border with Thailand.

However, a connection from Malaysia to Thailand is always very slow. This is because Malaysian and Thai ISPs have few shared third-country peering points and limited transit agreements, and there is very little direct capacity across the border.

From here in Malaysia, I can download from the USA (10,000km away) five times faster than I can download from Thailand (400km away).

When I am in Thailand and need to transfer a large file to Malaysia, I copy it to a server in the USA and then from that server to my office in Malaysia. This works out much faster than copying it directly.

You have to analyse the specific situation before you can come to a conclusion about where it is better to host.

The idea that "local hosting is always better" or "the closest hosting is best" is way too simplistic to be useful.

If I had access to both ends of the connection, I could answer that question for you. Since it is a fictional situation, and you control the secret variables, of course it cannot be answered.

No, no! Please, share your superb theories. I have been building and managing networks for 25 years, I will do my best to understand their superbness.

 

This is too ridicules...is it sense to guess the web host seo nature with their search engine rankings ...?

I can understand u r helping nature to make people know the best host ..but ur analysis is very wrong :-(